Creating PDF Files

Is there any free PDF creators that anyone can recommend? I did have one that you could "print" to a PDF file, but it had a copyright at the bottom of each page. I mainly want it to make PDFs from my HTML files.

I think I know the one you mean: Fineprint PDF-Factory

It's pretty cheap, I haven't found any (legally) free ones yet.

have a look at this from
apache it appears to be close to what you want

Thanks guys. I think it was Fineprint PDF-Factory, and I think I also had GhostWritter (I think).

I'll try Fop and see what it's like.

you could always create your file in LaTeX and then copy it to a *nix machine and to tex2pdf and that will do it for free :)

Dean, I thought it was pdflatex from Han the Thanh (no I can't be arsed to do the accents :p) ?

Or is there another one? I used to use dvips then ps2pdf, but not any more.

could be, but i know that at uni we got pdf


actually just checked on our main server at uni, the command is texi2pdf, so yeah must be possible

Ahhh. That's different. Texi isn't strictly TeX, I don't think, but they're definitely related.

*checks*

Yeah, I have texi2pdf as well.

sure it will do the same job

Just checked again. Different but similar syntax.

Texinfo seems more for online documentation than typesetting, from what I've seen of its use.

Although I'd say use whichever one did what you want, I need to learn it because it's good for autogenerating web pages of documents.

i will have a look through last years course notes and see what i can find for you

right, wasn't that hard in the end to find it,

but the command to generate PDF documents from LaTeX is

pdflatex mydoc.tex


where mydoc is the name of your LaTeX file

any good for you Mike ?

;)

Been using LaTeX for years now anyway :D It was texinfo I was more concerned about, but don't worry. When I have time I'm sure there's ample documentation available.

Cheers anyway.

no probs

Warez version of acrobat.

That's technically free.

:p

Heh I did think about it, I'm trying FinePrint because I couldn't get Fop to work.

And I did have Linux (RedHat and Mandrake) on my PC, but I didn't really like the way they looked. The fonts seemed a bit dodgy so I went back to windows. So I can't use tex2pdf unfortunately.

I think somewhere on the abode website you could upload files and it turns em into pdf for you (maybe it was some other site but I remember something like that)

Yeah I heard about that in a mag. I think there was a limit of 5 files or something.

Here's a prog
with source. In in c# so you'll need the dot net framework.
I tried it out and it works fine, except only with txt files

Thanks, but I'm on Win98, so the .NET framework doesn't work does it?

Nope, sadly :(

You might be able to use libpdf, though. Or Ghostscript.

on the contrary I've got Win98 and I've just started messing
with c#
I downloaded the .NET framework redistributables (20megs)
and a free program sharp develop beta version for developing.

Maybe just the IDE doesn't run on 98 then :)

Well I know for a fact Visual Studio .net won't work.
and the SDK install isn't design with 98 in mind and will throw
up errors when you try to install, but there are ways around it ;)

just did a google search for something different, but the sponsored advert was a FREE pdf writer (it just shows a sponsors web site when you run it)

http://site4.pdf995.com/download.html

I downloaded the SDK before and it wouldn't run the installer on 98. I thought compiled binaries could run, but you couldn't develop apps.

Thanks for the link si, I take a look.